I thought of you and your non-garbage project a zillion times in Italy, especially during our stay at the farm. There is recycling in many places, but our relatives do NOT seem to have entered into garbage-control phase of green living. Yes, most of their food is organically grown on the farm; yes, they compost all food waste (as in: they feed it to the pigs and the dogs and the cats). Yes, they do not over-use electricity or water. BUT they use plastic plates (!), lots of plastic bottles (water, gazzoza). They re-use all glass bottles for the home-made wine and preserves.

I was especially upset with MYSELF as I was not able to separate our own garbage and recycle the few things we bought. I had somewhat troubling contamination issues because of the unsanitary nature of life at The Farm.

Congratulations on the public witness of your project. I am glad to be home and back on track here. As you know, we have really excellent recycling facilities available to us. My brother took a huge bag of polystyrene and a big box of tech parts to a local Enviro-Day. This is something we often do together. xxoo from scriptduck